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HANDSOME
HARRY
OPENING
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HANDSOME
HARRY IS OPENING APRIL 16TH IN NEW YORK AT THE IFC
CENTER AND SELECT CITIES
NATIONWIDE.
HANDSOME
HARRY
is the latest film by Bette Gordon, whose 1983 feature,
“Variety,” remains a signal work of the early American
“indie” movement. Heading an impressive ensemble cast, Jamey
Sheridan (“The Ice Storm,” “Syriana”) portrays the
title role– a divorced man, alienated from his grown son, whose life is
defined by a number of casual relationships but no intimate ones. A
loner
by choice, Harry is forced out of self-imposed exile when he is summoned
to the
deathbed of Tom Kelly (Steve Buscemi), an old Navy pal with one last
wish: he
wants Harry to seek out another old friend, Dave Kagan, and ask his
forgiveness
for some horrible wrong that Tom, Harry, and their other close friends
committed when they were all still in the military. These men were once
like
Harry’s family, and Kagan was much more than that, but Harry has avoided
them most of his adult life. Traveling thousands of miles—and across
three decades of suppressed memories and emotions—Harry must now face
each of his old buddies, and must ultimately find the courage to face
Dave
Kagan. Until he does, he will never be able to face himself.
Though
it takes the form of a classic
road movie, the true terrain covered by HANDSOME HARRY is the male
psyche. In a
series of carefully observed, beautifully acted vignettes, the film
explores
what brought these men together, what drove them apart, how they
betrayed one
another and, worse still, how they betrayed themselves. Gordon, whose
emotionally wrenching climax reveals the enormous gulf between who Harry
might
have been and who he eventually became, proves that, sometimes, it takes
a
woman to show us what it takes to be a man.
Directed by:
Bette Gordon
Written by:
Nicholas T. Proferes
Featuring:
Jamey Sheridan, Steve Buscemi,
Mariann Mayberry, Aidan Quinn, John Savage, Campbell Scott, Titus
Welliver,
Karen Young.
Release Date:
April 16, 2010
